Responsibilities
As the highest body of state administration, the Government of the RS has, in accordance with the Constitution and the Law on Government, the following duties:
- it determines, directs and harmonises the implementation of state policies;
- it issues executive regulations and passes other legal, political, economic, financial and organisational measures in order to ensure the development of the state and the regulation of conditions in all areas of governmental activity;
- it proposes laws, the state budget, national programmes and other general acts, which determine the fundamental and long-term political directions of individual areas of Government, and which need to be passed by the National Assembly;
- it oversees the implementation of the legislation and other regulations passed by the National Assembly, as well as the complete activity of the state administration;
- it realises the rights and duties which refer to the RS as the founder of institutes, economic corporations and other organisations;
- it manages the fixed assets and other assets of the RS, unless there is a law relating specifically to an individual fixed asset, stating otherwise;
- it prepares a budget memorandum, in which it presents the basic goals and tasks of economic, social and budgetary policies;
- it passes organisational, personnel and other measures relating to the work of the Government, the ministries and the whole of the state administration;
- it represents the RS as a legal entity, when not otherwise determined by a special law.
